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The Office 365 Service Communications API allows tenant access to service update message data, just like you see in the Microsoft 365 admin center. This article explores how to use the API to fetch service messages and report them in different formats, including HTML and even as a Word document.
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In this week’s Practical 365 podcast, Steve and Paul get down into the detail of Windows 365 – will it be a hit or a miss? And we discuss the new version of SharePoint Server that is arriving – plus we talk through the licensing for Viva. Is it worth it?
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Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android (MTRoA) – formerly known as Collaboration Bars, are designed to cater for both smaller meeting rooms and for individual users – known as personal mode. Learn how to set this up and explore what it can do.
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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (Previously Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection) is a suite of tools/policies that provides powerful protection for your Office 365 environment. This article explores the various tools available at the different licensing levels and shows how Preset Policies and Configuration Analyzer can help you quickly align with the guidance provided, allowing you to focus on the settings that matter the most in your environment.
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Scoping and planning are instrumental for a successful Office 365 tenant-to-tenant migration project. This article covers where Microsoft native tools can be a good fit for some, paid tools the best option for others; and review how to realistically scope your project and map to the appropriate options.
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This week Microsoft announced Windows 365 – launching on August 2nd, which is (arguably) Microsoft’s big entry into Desktop as a Service (DaaS). Windows 365 allows you to provide users with persistent virtual desktops without managing the supporting infrastructure. AVD gets new features too, with Azure AD Join and Intune management now in Preview.
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Within large organizations utilizing Teams, generating reports on channel storage and then migrating this data is extremely difficult. To help map out how Teams uses SharePoint, this article introduces a simple Graph API/PowerShell script to report Teams channels and their SharePoint locations and walks you through the steps so you can run the report yourself.
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Microsoft is moving the Office 365 Service Communications API to the Microsoft Graph. The new API is in public preview. Converting PowerShell scripts from the old API to the new isn’t particularly difficult if you have ever worked with the Graph before. As always, the devil is in the detail, but persistence and some mild swearing should be enough to get scripts over the line. This article explores how to use the new API to fetch and report details of service incidents.
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When Microsoft delivers shared channels later in 2021, Teams users will have three types of channels to choose from. In this article, we discuss the differences between regular, private, and shared channels and how they are used.
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Microsoft has released security updates for Exchange 2013, Exchange 2016, and Exchange 2019 to fix some remote code execution vulnerabilities. It’s time to update your on-premises servers again, including those used for hybrid management. Let’s not give those nasty hackers any easy targets to attack.
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Just because you can rename your SharePoint Online URL, should you? Mike Weaver points out five major considerations you should seriously take into account if your organization is thinking about pursuing this course of action.
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